On Sunday’s Fox News broadcast “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said the border crisis is due to President Joe Biden’s “incompetence,” as many have suggested. He dismissed the claim that it was a product.
Rather, Mr. Cruz argued, the situation was intentional and caused an increase in illegal immigration.
“It’s a disaster on every level,” Cruz said. “This is a humanitarian disaster. It’s a public health disaster. It’s a public safety disaster. It’s a national security disaster. And you’re also right that this is intentional. This is Joe This is not caused by the fact that Biden is incompetent or that Alejandro Mayorkas is negligent. This is an intentional outcome that they want. When Joe Biden became president, the past 45 He inherited the lowest illegal immigration rate in years and deliberately broke that system. He opened the border and the numbers immediately skyrocketed, with 9.6 million illegal immigrants entering this country illegally.”
“And you use the word slavery, and that’s exactly what it is, that’s what it is,” he continued. “You may remember the last time Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the Judiciary Committee, and I put up a poster board with pictures of colored wristbands and asked him questions. I said, ‘Secretary, what color wristband is this?’ And you and I are both lawyers, and as lawyers, we never ask questions that we don’t know the answer to. Mayorkas said his answer surprised me. He said, “I don’t know what that wristband is. I’ve never seen it before.” And in complete shock, I said to him, “I don’t know what that wristband is. I’ve never seen it before.” Mr. Secretary, you have told the American people that you are completely incompetent at your job and you don’t even bother pretending. ”
“Why? Because almost every illegal alien who passes through this country wears one of these colored wristbands. Depending on how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels,” Cruz said. They’re color-coded. You stand on the banks of the Rio Grande and you see hundreds of wristbands lying in the grass. And what happens? They become Border Patrol, and Joe Biden We send them to every city in America. And when the teenage boys get there, they’re working for a cartel. They commit crimes, they rob cars, they rob houses. , robbing people because they have to pay back the money.”
“And to make matters worse, Mark, the teenage girls, thousands of them, are trapped in sexual slavery, have to pay back the cartels, and could be locked up in forced prostitution for years.” “There is,” he added. “These colored wristbands are quite literally modern-day leg irons, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Washington Democrats don’t care and want this to continue. ”
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